"I always carry a lighter"
Alyssa Jones grew up in Point Place, Wisconsin. It was the mid 70's; LED Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were popular, and everything else was sex and drugs.
Since she was little, she always kept to herself. Never any...
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Eric's mom, Kitty, dragged me into the kitchen up stairs where a bald man, whom I'm assuming is Eric's father, sat.
"Red!" He looked up from his paper annoyed
"What Kitty?" He asked standing up and putting his paper down on the table, "Can a man not read the paper in peace anymore?"
She rolled her eyes, "This is Alyssa Jones. She is one of their new friends! Isn't she just a cutie?" She said pulling me into a tight side hug as I gave a wave.
He walked over to me, "Friend? Why would you want to be friends with a bunch of dumbasses?" He asked making me laugh. He shook his head, "Jones? Is your father Frank?"
"Yep, that's him... why what'd he do?" I asked worried
He laughed, "Nothing! Frank and I were friends in high school. What a small world."
Red continued to go on about something him and my dad did in high school, but I was to busy watching the gang load up stuff in the car. Hyde stopped at the window giving me a wave telling me to come on.
"That's really cool Mr. Foreman." I said smiling "Well it was nice meeting you guys, but I should really be getting going. Have a good night!" I said quickly and heading out the back door
"Bye! Have fun!" I heard Kitty say after me as I shut the door
••• After listening to Kelso beg Jackie for a couple minutes, she finally gave us the okay for the party.
"You ever drank from a keg before?" Hyde asked me
"Yah a couple times... first time I did a keg stand, but the people holding my legs up, they let go and I fell over backwards... so that was, um, fun?" I said as Hyde started laughing
"Well if you don't want to do that tonight let me hold you up, and not Kelso" He said making me laugh
Hyde turned around looking up at Fez sitting on the edge of the pool. "Are you gonna come down here?" He asked him
"I can't. Rule is that you have to wait 30 minutes after eating to get in a pool, and I ate 25 minutes ago." He answered making me burst out laughing
Hyde turned and looked at me shaking his head before turning back to Fez, "I don't care when you ate, Fez! Get in the pool now."
"If I get a cramp, it will be on your head." Fez said getting up and coming down the ladder
"Ok. Hurry up and drink your keg." Jackie said crossing her arms, we all looked at her confused
"Hurry up and drink a keg?" Hyde said bluntly to her
"Jackie, will you just mellow out? I mean this rules. We've got a keg and soon everybody's gonna be here." Kelso said like a dumbass
"Everybody?" Jackie said confused
"Everybody who matters Jackie... and for the first time, that includes you." Eric said while him and everyone else went in to hug her. Not me, nope don't do hugs.
"Alright, you heard her lets drink beer." Hyde said and everyone crowded around the keg
They all began arguing about who should go first, I just looked at the keg. I work in a bar, and something doesn't look right. Then it hit me.
"Guys." They continued to argue, "Guyssss" nothing, "Guys!" I yelled
They all turned at the same time yelling, "What?"
"I don't know if you've noticed, or know how to drink from a keg but, there's no tap." I said
Hyde let out a cry, screaming "No!" slowly sinking onto his knees and hugging the keg dramatically.
"Okay we really need a tap here" Hyde says standing up after a few moments
Kelso pulls something out of his pocket, "I got my swiss army knife."
"Oh, great, we can whittle the beer out." Hyde said sarcastically at the same time I said, "What are you gonna do? Whittle the beer out?"
We looked at each other before turning our attention back to the dilemma.
"Okay look, they sell taps at the liquor store." Donna said
"Yeah, and who's got the money to buy it, huh?" Hyde asked
Everyone turned to look at me and Jackie.
"What makes you think I have money?" I asked surprised
"Well you work sooo?" Hyde said
Kelso ended up taking Eric's money to go buy the tap since they are charging people to come. Donna and Hyde went and sat at the edge of the pool, and I stayed down with fez to listen to him welcome people in his foreigner way.
After a while there was a bunch of people here and all that has changed was that Kelso had come back with a broken keg tap. Luckily Eric was trying to show off for Donna and left to go steal his dads tap. After talking to my friend Ava from school for a little bit I went over to take a seat beside Hyde, but apparently, I miss judged and ended up half missing the chair and falling over on Hyde.
"Whoa! What the hell? Are you okay?" Hyde asked holding me up.
I stood up and burst out laughing as I finally got seated in the seat.
"Are you drunk?" Hyde asked me loudly
"Shhhhh" I put my hand over his mouth, "Don't be so loud!"
I bent over and opened my bag grabbing a coke bottle. I handed one of them to Hyde.
"What? I don't want a coke?" He said handing it back
"Shut up and drink it." I slurred
He opened it and took a sip, "This has whisky in it" He whispered to me with a smile, "Why are you just giving this to me now?"
"I have a limited stash" I whispered
He shook his head and held his bottle out tapping it against mine and took another sip.
"Alright! Everybody out!" I jumped and looked up to see 2 cops, along with Red and a curly headed guy.
"Well damn it" I heard Hyde say from beside me
"So, want another drink?" I asked, handing it to him with an innocent smile
••• After everyone had left, all of us were standing there while Red yelled at us and curly, Donnas dad, sat in the chair. It took everything in me to be serious. All the sudden I hear something bang against the side of the pool. Eric had thrown a hose over the side of the pool and swung down it. When he got to the bottom he yelled, "I stole my dad's tap!" before he turned around. Well, let me tell you the look on his face was priceless. I started laughing so hard I could hardly stand. I fell over into Hyde who put his arm around my waist to hold me up.
"Is she drunk?" I heard Red ask as I was still laughing, "How? There's no tap! Take her to the car, now"
Hyde helped me up the ladder and walked with me to car. I sat down in the back seat with him, and lied my head on his shoulder, "I'm glad you guys are my friends now, you're a good friend Hyde."
I started drifting off on his shoulder," Yah, good friends."
